Geography Quiz #563
Geography Quiz for 27 October 2019
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Q1.
The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in north-western South Africa, is mainly what type of land?
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Q2.
What is the northernmost point in all U.S. territory?
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Lake of the Woods, Minnesota
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Q3.
Where is the large 600 m (2,000 ft) high mesa known as the Jugurtha Tableland?
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Q4.
What mountains or mountain areas shade the Gobi Desert from rain?
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The Ethiopian Highlands
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Q5.
What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
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Q6.
The global population of the Teviot flathead galaxias - the rarest New Zealand native freshwater fish and one of the rarest freshwater fish in the world - is found only in an area of less than a hectare where in New Zealand?
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Q7.
Which of these countries is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations?
Note: This question was updated in February 2024
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